Introduction: Anthropology, Cultural Values, and Aging -- Activities as Value at Lake District Senior Center -- Elders Supporting Each Other to Help Themselves -- Networking at Lake District Senior Center -- Post-Retirement Housing and Living Arrangements -- Who Supports Older Americans?: Families,...

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1. Verfasser:	Tsuji, Yohko (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New Brunswick Rutgers University Press [2021]
Schriftenreihe:	Global perspectives on aging
Schlagworte:	Altenheim Kulturvergleich Alterung Japanerin Ethnomethodologie New York > Staat Aging / Social aspects / United States Aging / Social aspects / Japan Senior centers / New York (State) / Case studies Older people / New York (State) / Case studies Older people / Social conditions / Cross-cultural studies
Zusammenfassung:	Introduction: Anthropology, Cultural Values, and Aging -- Activities as Value at Lake District Senior Center -- Elders Supporting Each Other to Help Themselves -- Networking at Lake District Senior Center -- Post-Retirement Housing and Living Arrangements -- Who Supports Older Americans?: Families, Self, and Other Sources -- Temporal Complexity in Older Americans' Lives -- Changes and Continuities Over Thirty Years of Research -- Conclusion: Challenges and Hopes in the New Frontier of Aging "In Through Japanese Eyes, based on her thirty-year research at a senior center in upstate New York, anthropologist Yohko Tsuji describes old age in America from a cross-cultural perspective. Comparing aging in America and in her native Japan, she discovers that notable differences in the pan-human experience of aging are rooted in cultural differences between these two countries, and that Americans have strongly negative attitudes toward aging because it represents the antithesis of cherished American values, especially independence. Tsuji's research discloses how her American interlocutors ingeniously fill this gap between the ideal and the real to live meaningful lives. The book also reveals that American culture, despite its seeming lack of guidance for those aging, plays a pivotal role in elders' lives, simultaneously assisting and constraining them. Furthermore, Tsuji's lengthy period of research illustrates major changes in her interlocutors' lives, incorporating their declines and death, and significant shifts in the culture of aging in American society. The book also describes the author's journey of getting to know American culture and growing into senescence herself"--
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:	xiiI, 233 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:	9781978819559 9781978819566